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NYAS @ WGF 3/27: Close Encounters: The Dilemmas of Contact for Isolated Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon

March 20, 2017

Join us Monday evening March 27th at 5:45 PM at The Wenner-Gren Foundation for the next installment of the New York Academy of Sciences lecture series. Dr. Glenn H. Shepard Jr., staff researcher in the Human Sciences Division at the Goeldi Museum in Belem, Brazil will be presenting, "Close Encounters: The Dilemmas of Contact for Isolated Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon". Dr. Janet Chernela from University of Maryland will act as discussant.